I know how I want to live.

I think I know how to live, not live in other people's mouths and eyes. "

When Bi Cheng said this, I was at the back end of the CUHK 500-person audience, watching her quietly from a distance. In the spotlight, cotton-padded jacket, long braid, big eyes, gentle smile … all these are deeply imprinted in my mind. A beautiful girl, I know her courage and talent. It is not difficult to learn guitar. The hard part is that few of us insist. It is not difficult to pretend literature and art, but it is difficult to insist on aesthetics to carry out everything in life. I believe that there are not a few people who were moved at the scene and in previous lives, but few people follow the soul and improvise.

Therefore, I love those who will never stop looking at the stars-Bi Cheng, who is the protagonist of my story today.

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A good student of "singer"

Bi Cheng's life track is smooth sailing. Until the university, the continuation is the demeanor of good students. Reading, attending classes, carefully preparing for exams, and the pursuit of art still stays at the stage of feeling the beautiful things handed down by my grandmother when I was a child. It was not until she was admitted to Peking University as a graduate student and chose the direction of "aesthetics" that she found that everything she always liked was related to aesthetics, and the puzzle of "how to choose the future direction and work hard for it" was suddenly solved.

The combination of music and aesthetics is during the communication between Bi Cheng, the second year of master's degree. One day, she was a guest at the photographer's friend's house, and his friend took out a classical guitar and began to play. At this time, the warm current of music suddenly filled Bi Cheng's whole body. So she made up her mind to start learning classical guitar.

Based on his contact and understanding of aesthetics, Bi Cheng began to write songs independently at the beginning of his contact with guitar. She admits that she doesn't know why she has a special voice for guitar. Often when you play a chord, the music in your mind will pour down like running water. When composing music, it usually doesn't take more than an hour. She especially cherishes the original appearance of the source of music inspiration. In this way, one after another, "a classical guitar, a warm voice" became the slogan of the first independent album "Broken Window on a Sunny Day". It is worth noting that there is only one classical guitar in the whole album, and the cover and inner pages of the album are also designed by Bi Cheng himself.

After graduating from master's degree, Bi Cheng went to work in Tokyo Securities Company, and then worked in Kenya Hara (MUJI Art Director) Design Institute. Here, she works during the day and takes her guitar to live house in Tokyo at night to play with friends who play music.

Girls who work hard are always lucky.

At this time, a poet living in Japan extended a lucky olive branch to Bi Cheng. He lamented the enthusiasm and sincerity of Bi Cheng's creation and decided to introduce Bi Cheng to Toshiro Furukawa, a famous contemporary Japanese poet, playwright and translator. In this way, Bi Cheng, with his passion for poetry and music, created a poem "The Last Day of Spring" by Toshiro Furukawa and played it.

Slowly, Bi Cheng found an inner balance between poetry and music. Resolutely, out of pure dreams and hopes for music, she decided to give up her job in Japan and devote herself to independent music.

True literature and art are the most precious things of mankind.

When it comes to Bi Cheng, many people say that "the talent of poetry overshadows her talent of music", and she is very modest. "I think these people are right. Just like my album "Poetry Meets Songs", there is music when there is poetry, but poetry is just an expression for me, not to say that I can't express more complicated music, but in my opinion, music itself should be pure and simple. "

The new album "I want to waste time with you" shows the vivid side of Bi Cheng's aesthetics. Regarding the new album, Bi Cheng used Simboska's sentence "I prefer the absurdity of writing poetry to the absurdity of not writing poetry" and said, "Writing poetry and singing are also absurd things in some people's eyes, but I prefer this."

Since Bi Cheng's debut, her big eyes and pure dress, the goddess of Peking University, have been labeled as "forest literature and art, small and fresh". However, in Bi Cheng's eyes, literature and art can't be without thoughts. If it is not playful, it must be sentimental. Bi Cheng's ethereal voice coupled with the lyrics of Everything will evoke inexplicable sadness in young people's hearts, as if they have experienced the vicissitudes of life: "Everything is fate/everything is a smoke cloud/everything is a beginning without an ending/everything is a fleeting pursuit/all joys are without smiles/all sufferings are without tears/all languages are repetitive/all communication is a reunion."

Bi Cheng believes that there are so many "small arts and small freshness" because this era needs something soothing. "I think people who like to label people or things should actually be afraid that they don't want to derail other people's opinions, and then rely on labels to identify themselves. I know what I want to do, not live in the mouth and eyes of others. "

Useless and beautiful

"I want to spend my time with you, such as looking down at the fish, leaving the teacups on the table and wasting their beautiful shadows. I want to spend the sunset together, such as walking until the stars are all over the sky ..." At the scene, due to the arrival of Chunlin Mo, Bi Cheng and Chunlin Mo personally performed the reserved program "I want to waste time with you" left by the concert on the evening of 20th. With the widespread spread of this folk song, "wasting time" has become a new philosophy of life, which means to slow down, listen to your heart and enjoy those beautiful and useless things when you don't have to calculate time and material.

This reminds me of the "most beautiful library" where my circle of friends is very hot recently.

Many people think this is their naive dream. However, the seaside library is not unimaginable, nor is it an absolute dream. But we modern people are getting impatient. The combination of romance by the sea and the beauty of dreams is a way to realize beauty in life. Zhuangzi once said that uselessness is for great use. Literature and art seem useless, but if we imagine a world without books or music, how can we express ourselves? Just like wasting time, in fact, sometimes, from the aesthetic field, uselessness and wasting time are essentially a great wisdom.

Finally, end today's story with Bi Cheng's words. "Indeed, I am always the opposite of some people. Some people like enthusiasm, but I prefer silence. Some people like to talk about their dreams, but I just stick to my heart. After twenty years of studying in my favorite university and working in my dream design office, I now decide to do my own thing independently, such as music. Some people try to make life look extremely inspirational, and I just try to make my life look natural. "

Let's wish this quiet and persistent beautiful girl a better and better future. By the way, she also said that the world of nursery rhymes is getting narrower and narrower now, and she also plans to compose and sing some nursery rhymes by herself, and then listen to them for children to accompany their childhood. In her opinion, this is a very beautiful thing.